I wish it had started off with my finishing my PMP certification, but alas it turns out that I need a lot more studying in order to get through that bear of a test. So I had now pushed the test back to February 25th.

While it does suck that I wasn’t able to take it when I wanted, I would much rather pass it after extending my study time instead of taking it immediately and fail it.

Ah well, at least the rest of the new year seems to be progressing forward. Hope the hear some good news soon.

Good gravy, why the hell did I decide to do a certification exam for the last day of the year. I must have drunk way too much eggnog when I scheduled that. Ugh. Feel like my brain is frying out.

Figured I would at least do the last post of the year since I say I would be posting more often. Will see you all next year when I plan on doing the following items (loosely referred to as “resolutions”) :

Update stories on my site: Some of the stories I have are not current, so I plan on updating the stories that are posted with more recent work.

Serialize some short stories for monetary gain: Even though I will be posting things to my site, I would like to see if I can perhaps serialize something on Amazon Shorts.

Write and then submit a story for publication: Need to write more self-contained short stories.

Start working out again: Self-explanatory.

Continue my education: After I finish my PMP test (hopefully) I want to continue with learning some more project management techniques as well as pursue some more technical certifications (Linux would be one).

Learn a programming language: Thinking of Ruby on Rails but not 100% sure.

Do a little more traveling: Not even internationally, some road trips would be great.

Exactly like the title says. What happened to the year? I had started the year with such strong intentions working on a variety of projects and then: WHAM!.

Not too much to say happened, but some of the major things I can point out:

I’m not a translator: Try as I might, it was just something that I ended up putting too much of my time into and finding little in return. The thoughts that people would also read some of my original works as well didn’t come through. Add to that my speed was no where near as fast as people would like and it all comes out to that my time was best spent elsewhere. Ah well, was interesting to try.

Server crash: As much fun as it is to maintain your own blog and server, it isn’t fun when you have hardware that likes to conk out on you and then you end up being offline for a while. Finally decided on giving up the ghost on maintain my own servers and went back to a NAS. At least the good thing is that the one I selected can run WordPress so I don’t have to worry about finding a host and what not, but still multi-month outage = Not fun.

Work Changes: Several changes happened at my job and not all for the better. Not going to go into it here but if you know me you know to what I refer to.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification: One of the bigger changes (and alluding to what is mentioned in the pic) that happened most recently. Decided to try and improve myself, but now I have to do something I haven’t done in years: Study and Taking a Test. Ugh, thought I left that behind after I finished my Master’s, but this will definitely help with my career. Hope to have it done before the end of the year, but we’ll see.

Writing Re-Start: One of the good things to come out recently. I found a new task manager, Habitica, which has helped me to pursue my goals more seriously (as well as incentivize completing them) and I actually find myself writing a lot more than I had previously. Surprising to say the least.

So, those were some of the things that happened this year. Hoping the next year will definitely move things forward. I’ve also made a goal to post some more on this blog so you’ll be hearing more from me in the coming weeks.

Well, I should have posted this earlier but I was trying to give it an honest go at restarting and I just can’t seem to get back into it. There’s nothing to definitive to blame, just a variety of factors (including wanting to focus on my original works) so for the time being I’m putting my translation project on hold. I also find it pretty time consuming for me (since I’m not incredibly good at it) and it eats into the already limited time I have. So for the time being, I’m gonna hold off on it and concentrate on my other works.

Unless, of course, there’s someone who’d be willing to help with the translation. If someone can help me with the translation then I can definitely take care of the editing. Of course, since I know there is another group out there who is translating the series I at least know there probably won’t be a great rush to help here, but I figured it was worth a shot mentioning it.

As far as my original works go, I’m continuing to write them but instead of posting 1K word segments, I’ve decided to go ahead and write longer, more traditional chapters. For example, 1-2 of Phantom Star has already been written, but I’ve decided to hold onto it until I finish the chapter and then post it in one shot. The same thing will go for all my other stories as well.

If anyone would rather see the shorter segments, feel free to drop me a line. If everything goes as planned, I should be posting the completed 1st chapter of Phantom Star some time this month.

Just as a side note, it’s only been recently I’ve been writing more prolifically again after a long dry spell so that’s the main reason for holding off translating. Maybe when things stabilize, or I can get someone to help with translations, I’ll come back to it. But that’s it for now. I’ll leave up what I have posted for the time being since the other group has not done the earlier chapters from what I can tell.

It’s February and yup still no updates. A little mortifying to say the least, but it’s something I’ll be rectifying before the end of the month.

So far the response has been great on the translated project. Not so much on the original projects, but I attribute that to my slow updates and the fact that most of the stories have just started.

As far as the slow updates are concerned: It won’t be changing anytime soon because of work/life/assassinations, etc. I bring this up as a reminder that I run this site in my free time and mostly as a way to put up my own works, and also because I do enjoy translating. I try to be as timely as possible but I also make no guarantees on where and when I will post an update.

I mention this since I know some other sites will post faster than I will, and you are more than welcome to go there for your fix. But, if you’re interested in a higher quality product (or at least I believe it to be) then feel free to stick around, I’m glad to have you here.

I hope everyone had a great holiday season and a happy New Year’s. December was a bit more eventful than I had imagined, with some sad tidings on the family front as well as a bunch of holiday related celebrations.

Also, there was much goofing off at the time, but I’ll bet you didn’t think I would point that out, huh? ^_^

Suffice it to say during that time, I didn’t get much writing or translating done, but now I’m back in the thick of things and plan on posting the next translated installment this month as well as posting the next updates on my original works.